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Three new Raleigh bakeries popped up this summer and we couldn’t be happier. If you’re from Raleigh, you know about Boulted Bread croissants with thousands of layers. You’ve been to Yellow Dog Bread Company and found cookies that melt in your mouth like butter. And, you’ve definitely had the area’s

Baltimore is known for a lot of things, particularly great food. From Inner Harbor to Fell’s Point and beyond, you can find craft cocktails, crab cakes, tacos, avo toast, and coffee. Basically you’ll never wander where to eat in Baltimore. If you want it, the city has it. We took

The light seeped through the window bouncing off the rogue crumbs and sugar crystals that lingered on my shirt. I made my way to Boulted Bread a bit early, so my senses could run around on the morning bun’s citrusy, textural playground. I wanted to give Durham chef and baker

Up until my mid-to-late twenties, I grappled with the fact that I was born and raised in North Carolina and wasn’t living in a bustling metropolis like the majority of my friends. I was a 25-year-old millennial (I’m still a millennial), who thought success waited for me in a glitzy

Are you caught up in the Popeyes and Chick-fil-a debate? There are not many people who love a good fried chicken sandwich more than CurEat founder Steve Mangano. He loves it so much he created a CurEat list of 13 fried chicken restaurants to help you expand the fried chicken debate beyond the fast

A favorite childhood pastime consisted of playing hooky from school and hitting the gas station with my late father, where we’d grab two messy hot dogs each and devour them in his red Ford pickup truck, on the way to Wal-Mart. A no-frills hot dog topped with chili, onions, mustard

Did you know that the Southern biscuit was considered a luxury pre-Civil War? (We still think it’s a luxurious food staple). When I was a girl, I spent my summers in the West Virginia mountains with my grandparents. Each morning the smell of homemade biscuits would make its way into

Last summer, the New York Times wrote an article stating that the Aperol Spritz was “officially the drink of the summer.” The article goes on to say that the neon orange-hued cocktail is so popular at Caffe Dante in New York City, it’s now on tap and poured from a

Thanks to oyster farms, you can eat oysters year-round. In the past, oyster season was from September to April. If you’re like us and always order a dozen oysters on the half shell and a glass of white wine in the “R”-less months, then you probably wish you had a

I’ll never forget the day I took this photo of North Carolina pitmaster Sam Jones. We were sitting in the middle of a field at Green Button Farm in Bahama, NC (pronounced Ba-hay-ma). He had just finished prepping a whole hog for the NC BBQ Revival, and I was patiently